Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo 108
An anonymous reader writes "To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs, Joseph Tame, a media producer and a marathon runner from Tokyo, ran 21 kms in 2 hours — starting from the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni Shrine. The route, when mapped, shows the famous Apple logo in the center of Tokyo."
Yes, but can he run Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
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Nah. A Unix user would just use automation. That's what advanced technology is for.
Let the gadget do the work rather than working for the gadget.
No GUI babysitting or manual propulsion required.
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Nah, the first nano user would just get it done while the neckbeards were fighting
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Who cares? The project files would not be vi-only. It's not like we're talking about Windows or MacOS software here.
Emacs and vi users could collaborate without even knowing that other people are using a different editor.
The Unix approach wins again.
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No, a Unix user would be there to manually configure every step themselves so that they could talk about how open and free the process was. When people point out that they only did Tux's foot, they'd respond with, "It's open source, you finish it!"
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...then the next motivated person could come along would (finish it).
Plus the solution would be available for reuse when someone got it in their mind to do the same thing with Chuck.
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Hell, I'm too lazy to _drive_ that far.
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Tux is even easier, there are no discontinuities in a penguin, unlike that leaf.
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Re:He didn't die. (Score:5, Insightful)
Read between the lines. Jobs has authorized an official biography, codified management guidelines at the company for when he's gone, submitted his resignation, and has been photographed looking extremely thin. He has previously had cancer as well as as liver transplant. What do you think is likely to happen in the next six to twelve months?
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He'll attain divinity and ascend into heaven?
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>He'll attain divinity and ascend into heaven?
There aren't even reports of his having made it to the castle yet, let alone having recovered the amulet.
Speculation as to ascension is premature.
Once he enters the planes, let us know, and we'll all watch live.
Re:He didn't die. (Score:5, Insightful)
What do you think is likely to happen in the next six to twelve months?
An endless run of stories about Steve's health so Slashdot can serve ads.
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Every time you post, you're saying: "Please Slashdot, give me more stories about this topic!"
So, yes, there is. Use your brain to work it out.
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Uh, by that logic, you're doing the same thing.
You are correct.
A page hit is a page hit whether you're expressing an negative or positive opinion.
Also correct. Additionally, you are creating more content for people to read. This means more ads served etc.
The wonderful thing about Slashdot is that if you don't want to see Apple stories (which are typically slanted as fanbois fodder, or Apple-hater jerky), block them
Again correct. You'd think the people bitching would do that. Personally, I enjoy bitching about it. At least I can admit it.
Re:He didn't die. (Score:5, Insightful)
have you seen this pic of him?
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/ [tmz.com]
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We have to finally admit, that Apple is a cult. It has all the same traits as a religion. (No, there is no difference between a cult and a religion, other than perhaps the amount of penetration of the population).
This is not meant in a judging sense. Everyone does what he does, because he thinks it's good for him.
But especially with craziness like this, it is pretty obvious that it's actually rather harmful to them.
- The added price for what is still just cheap Foxconn stuff.
- The lock-in into the golden ca
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WRONG! You are just a heretic and a blasphemer. Death to you and all the other infidels.
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Apple products would clearly not be bought by any rational mind. They are emotional purchases. Dreams. Bloomy dreams with a bad reality. Schizotypic delusions. In other words: Religion/cult.
Sent from my HTC Evo
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People bought his company's overpriced products. I'm sure that's all the thanks from the hoi poloi that matters to Steve.
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Snap out of it, people.
So what? Someone doesn't have to die before you honor them for their contributions. Love him or hate him, Steve has changed the industry, and it's appropriate to honor him at a time like this when he's stepping down from the role at which he made those changes.
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a bit defensive aren't we? besides your OSX came from the same OSS cesspool
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OSX didn't come from a cesspool, it was intelligently designed!
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I have two of them. Had a 3rd one but the last one died prematurely.
So your "poverty" argument is just silly.
It's not that we refuse to "pay more", it's that we refuse to "get less".
It's a shame neither one of the survivors will run the new Civ or any older RTS games. They were kind of obsolete the day they were made (the Macs that is).
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Don't feed the trolls, please.
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MacOS only impresses the ignorant. Get over it.
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> The closest Android competitors frankly just haven't gotten the Apple smooth and seamless thing down.
It doesn't have anything to do with "smooth". It's about getting basic core features right. Apple doesn't get basic core features right. If you use your phone for anything remotely "productive", you will likely find Apple's tendency to forget the power user a problem. Despite of all of the hype surrounding "Apple design", they can't quite seem to manage accommodating slightly less trivial use cases.
Enti
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This is News? (Score:1)
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Of course it's news, it has Apple in the title.
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We really need a "sad, but true" moderation option.
Uh oh (Score:1)
Looks suspiciously like the Apple logo. He's going to get sued for trademark violation...
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I think you're getting running mixed up with Golf.
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and a lot of drinking!
Clever and creative (Score:4, Insightful)
I know many people will bash this guy as "an Apple fanboi", or having "drunk the Kool-Aid®" (BTW, the Jonestown [wikipedia.org] incident used Flavor Aid® [wikipedia.org], not Kool-Aid®, but don't let facts get in the way), but what those people are overlooking is that this is both clever and creative.
Side note: Creative people don't care whether or not you like or agree with their choice of tools. If you don't like Apple or Apple products, fine. But all the Apple, Apple product, and "fanboi" bashing is ridiculous. The company and products aren't perfect, but they are good and they do inspire creativity. They're tools that for many people make working easier, faster, and allow them to create. Nothing more, nothing less. And, no, I don't particularly care if you agree/disagree with this post.
Re:Clever and creative (Score:5, Insightful)
He wasnt a fanboi huh?
Well that was it. I was hooked. Since then I’ve upgraded every year, paying hefty cancellation fees on old contracts in order to have the latest and greatest. The improvements in the iPhone have enabled me to do more each year and I’m excited to think of where it might take us in the next 5 years.
lol...
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Wow, what a "fanboi," buying things that make him more productive. You're totally right, anonymous coward who trolls every Apple article. Thanks for setting us straight.
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A pretty GUI is all well in good.
If it doesn't work as advertised though, then it's not so hot.
If I am spending too much time manipulating the GUI, then the GUI design has failed badly. It doesn't matter what OS you are talking about. If you are reaching for the terminal or the bash prompt, the "pretty stuff" has failed you. The problem with "geeks" is not that they prefer form over function but that they understand function well enough to know what they should be able to expect.
They are more demanding.
Bein
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More productive? That's a bit of a stretch. I will agree that the improvements between each iteration of the iPhone – from the original to iPhone 4 – are pretty nice, but I doubt the improvements and added features really contribute to a person's productivity. This guy is pretty much the definition of a consumer-whore fanboy.
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Yes. It is a bit of a stretch to call subsequent iphones any more than "hardware refreshes".
"Revolution" doesn't happen at that pace.
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I don't care about the fact that someone is a fan of a corporation (there are fans for Adidas, Nike, car brands, etc.), luckily not my problem.
But "clever and creative"? Creative are the people who thought up a satellite based navigation system. Clever those who realized it. Creative were the people programming the runner app. Clever is Apple that they got their share when the guy bought it.
Well I guess this Y2K+. Before that we did something just for fun. Now we do something for fun, feel important, post a
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Where Apple goes, the industry follows. This drives the Linux fanboys who still visit Slashdot nuts. Most rational posters left for Reddit and Hacker News years ago, so most of what you have left are the crazy trolls and fanboys who hate everything that competes with open source. Just look at the flood of robotic anonymous trolling in these comments.
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the thing that might well kill the traditional PC
The tablet can't kill the PC. Do you know what powers that cloud people love so much? Do you know what kind of machine is used to develop for tablets, or other systems? Do you know where scientific simulations run?
[open source is] unknown and irrelevant to 99.5% of the public
Heh. Just because people don't know about it doesn't makes it irrelevant. If Apache suddenly vanished I'm sure the general public would be pretty pissed they can't waste their time on some stupid website.
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It's not the fact that Apple is being followed, it's where Apple is trying to follow them.
Locked down systems.
80s style single vendor proprietary approach to just about everything.
Apple is the return of the Commodore 64 with Sony-only brand DVDs for good measure.
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Couldn't give a flying fuck if he ran a penguin or Steve Ballmer's chair, but he is a fanboi, and if it makes him happy, good on him. Personally, as a Mac system admin, I think Macs are fine, but the Mac fans tend to miss out on the fact that there is other good stuff besides Apple out there.
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having "drunk the Kool-Aid" (BTW, the Jonestown [wikipedia.org] incident used Flavor Aid [wikipedia.org], not Kool-Aid, but don't let facts get in the way)
Most of us know that, we just aren't nit-picking pedants... well, okay, we *are* nit-picking pedants, just not enough to correct the culturally-accepted expression.
:-)
BTW, wouldn't "drunk the Appleade [tumblr.com]" be a more appropriate expression here?
Akibahara? (Score:2)
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Nah, in that case we'd end up with Giko instead of the Apple logo.
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Funny, last time I was there there were Apple products all over the place.
Surprises me that it's not in New York (Score:2, Offtopic)
Now that Steve has resigned (Score:1)
will he be known as Steven Jobless?
That "apple" looks like it's old and withering (Score:5, Funny)
Was that a tribute to Steve Jobs as well?
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When was the last time you ran a perfect curve that spanned several kilometers? Unless you have open fields, it simply won't be possible. He did a good job considering he's in Tokyo. The options for running paths spanning these sorts of distances are pretty limited, I'd imagine.
Interesting part (Score:4, Funny)
The runner must be thankful (Score:2)
That guy must be thankful that Bill Gates isn't ill so he doesn't have to die trying to create the Microsoft logo.
Really? Tribute? (Score:1, Insightful)
To pay his tribute to Steve Jobs,
The man who underpaid a business partner (Woz - he lied so he'd end up with more money in his pockets), a man who denied that his daughter born out of wedlock (Lisa) was his, who's business 'sense' claimed a production need on the Mac and Mac+ line needed 30,000+units when Apple sold less than 2000 in the same time period, who claimed the education market would move NeXT to #1 (channeling how education moved many Apple ]['s and missed Desktop publishing not to mention the W
And an anonymous coward (Score:1)
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A better tribute... (Score:2)
Another meaning (Score:1)
That must be a coincidence...